Rashad Lewis’ Mercedes really got around town after it was seized by cops.Michael Hicks

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They really took the scenic route.

The NYPD cops who blew a red light in a suspect’s impounded Mercedes nearly doubled the length of their trip from Harlem to Queens by taking a circuitous path through Brooklyn.

Cops drove at least 33 miles in the seized, $50,000 vehicle rather than taking a more direct route.

Officers got their hands on the sleek sports car at around 2:30 p.m. on Aug. 3 — seizing it from driver Rashad Lewis outside Bloomingdale’s on the East Side after they allegedly found bogus credit cards inside.

A police spokesperson said the cops drove the car to a secure lot on West 126th Street in Harlem where more valuable vehicles are taken.

The cop who took it out to an impound lot in Springfield Gardens, Queens, the next day appears to have milked the time behind the wheel.

It was driven down the West Side Highway, where the cop blew a red light at 34th Street and got Lewis, 25, slapped with a $50 traffic-camera ticket.

The officer kept going south and took the Battery Tunnel en route to a property clerk’s office on Gold Street in Downtown Brooklyn.

“That facility directed the officers to an available Police Department facility in Queens where it was held until the suspect received and presented a DA’s release to retrieve the auto,” the spokesperson said.

So the cop continued to the final stop at least 18 miles away, depending on the route.

Lewis said the bizarre, three-borough trip supports his claim that police took his wheels on a “joy ride” — though the NYPD insisted yesterday that cops did nothing wrong.